The Constructability of Artificial Intelligence (as defined by the Turing
Test)

Published as: Edmonds, B. (2000). The Constructability
of Artificial Intelligence (as defined by the Turing Test). Journal of Logic
Language and Informaiton, 9:419-424.

Abstract

The Turing Test, as originally specified, centres on the ability to perform
a social role. The TT can seen as a test of an ability to enter into normal
human social dynamics. In this light it seems unlikely that such an entity
can be wholly designed in an `off-line' mode, but rather a considerable
period of training in situ would be required. The argument that since we
can pass the TT and our cognitive processes might be implemented as a TM
that, in theory, an TM that could pass the TT could be built is attacked
on the grounds that not all TMs are constructable in a planned way. This
observation points towards the importance of developmental processes that
include random elements (e.g. evolution), but in these cases it becomes
problematic to call the result artificial.